August 2014

Lately, I came up with the idea to do some development on Aarch64. However, I couldn't get my hands on real hardware easily so I started to look for alternatives (i.e., emulators). The ARMv8 Foundation Model seemed to be the trivial solution but I've heard that QEMU is somewhat faster so I gave it a try. My goal was to set up the VM as quick as possible: reuse whatever is already "out there" and rebuild only what's utterly necessary. In the end it turned out that it's quite easy to get such a VM working ... once you know what you need.